A Pair of Socks
We read the story ‘A Pair of Socks‘ by Stuart J. Murphy, illustrated by Lois Ehlert. In this story a sock is trying to find its match.
- Lawrence “Ten socks!”
- Freida “A pair of ‘socks‘ is the socks on your foot. I have 2 socks.”
- Alejandra “Two.”
After reading the story the students took off their shoes and socks. They placed their socks in a pile on the floor.
- Can we find the matching pairs?
- What is the same and what is different?
- Alejandra “Blue and blue. Black and black (referring to the black outline around the balls and the black writing on the second sock)
- Sarah “This one no ball. This one no line.” (pointing to the black line at the top of the sock)
- Alejandra “This have rainbow this one no.” (referring to the coloured frill at the top of the pink sock)
- Lawrence “This is pink this is blue. This is small this is big.”
- Jiwoo “Small. Big.”
- Felix “This is not brown.” (one is pink and the other a grey)
- Poli “Line, this one no.”
- Alejandra “This is small this is big.”
- Lawrence “This pink, this no pink, brown.”
- Felix “That is not brown and not white.”
- Amber “This no pink, and in this one pink.”
- Alejandra “This one had pink here and here.” (pointing to the heel and toes)
- Jiwoo “This one big. Too small this one.”
- Lawrence “This have this, this no, this white and this is no.” (referring to the white stripes)
- Nicolas “No it has got rainbow”
Next, we matched the socks using the iPad.
SLO’s
- sort
- explain thinking
- share ideas
- listen to others’ perspectives
- discuss same and different
